Why is Missouri called, "The Show me State"?!
Question: Is it because they don't know how?
Answers: Is it because they don't know how?
Because that is the only way they can count to 21.
That's a shortened version of "Show me that again, please. I'm a little slow." hehehe. Go Jayhawks!
cause they have never seen "it".
I think Clint said that in the Outlaw Josey Wales.
There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet "Show-Me" state. The slogan is not official, but is common throughout the state and is used on Missouri license plates.
The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me." Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying.
Other versions of the "Show-Me" legend place the slogan's origin in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. There, the phrase was first employed as a term of ridicule and reproach. A miner's strike had been in progress for some time in the mid-1890s, and a number of miners from the lead districts of southwest Missouri had been imported to take the places of the strikers. The Joplin miners were unfamiliar with Colorado mining methods and required frequent instructions. Pit bosses began saying, "That man is from Missouri. You'll have to show him."
However the slogan originated, it has since passed into a different meaning entirely, and is now used to indicate the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians.
oh yes...you are the smartazz aren't ya buster?!
It is more the fact we like to FEEL, TOUCH, TASTE, EXPLORE IT...before we will believe it to be a good thing ;)
It's the abridged version of, show me yours, and I'll show you mine.
I always thought it was becuase once you get in MO you say "show me the way outta here!!!" GO KANSAS!
i will leave this question to your imagination
No. It is a Missouri political thing, and mind set in general. Instead of believing some politicians promises they prefer to see the results. Similar to "actions speak louder than words".
cuz thats where streaking was invented....
I'm really not sure.